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There is the army of firefighters and other personnel who waded into the flames and slowly beat them back. There is Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, adept at both crisis management and showmanship, who moved fast, stayed visible and received a general's welcome after the crisis as he tossed the coin to begin the San Diego Chargers game at a spotless Qualcomm Stadium, which only days earlier had been home to thousands of evacuees...
...attack on a Pakistani Air Force bus that killed eight military personnel and wounded dozens more south of Islamabad, Thursday, brought this week's death toll in suicide bombings to 15. But the spate of increasingly violent attacks on targets associated with his regime is only one of the many threats confronting the embattled President Pervez Musharraf. Challenges to his authority from the courtrooms of the capital to the rebellious mountains of the northwest have once again raised the specter of a declaration of martial law in Pakistan...
...warehouses of printed paper,” but “dynamic cultural centers.” “We need to...shape the scholarly landscape in flux, and make it happen for the public good,” he said in an appearance before some 200 library personnel at the Graduate School of Education. Darnton’s speech, “Old Books and E-Books,” came at a semesterly meeting of Harvard library personnel. In an interview before the event, Darnton said that the title of his speech evoked what he hoped...
...drafted we could become military physicians in two or three weeks, so we thought maybe we ought to see if [students] know anything about military ethics in general,” said Boyd, a clinical instructor in psychiatry at the Medical School. Known as the Health Care Personnel Delivery System, the process was authorized by Congress in 1987 to allow the U.S. to draft civilian physicians should there be a shortage of military doctors. Only 3.5 percent of the students surveyed in the study said they knew about the draft. Boyd said that his team sent over...
...course, there are numerous issues that surround the exit of Blackwater USA, which holds a $1.2 billion contract with the U.S. government and supplies most of the 30,000 private security guards currently in Iraq. The State department has said repeatedly that other private contractors do not have the personnel, nor are military officers trained and in ample supply for necessary protection duties. Nevertheless, we hope that the U.S. government is working as hard as possible to disentangle itself from Blackwater, and we are skeptical that there are few alternative options. In this ever-growing world of mercenary warfare?...